This was a clear confirmation what our sources were saying about Project Denver: that nVidia is bringing a 64-bit instruction set to the ARM CPU architecture. According to our sources, in order to fully develop a new high-performing CPU architecture, you need to dedicate roughly between 1.1-1.8 billion dollars. The figure comes from companies that actually develop CPU architectures, thus they have previous experience. The cost of Project Denver could be much higher, as nVidia doesn't have previous experience in building a CPU architecture. The company however, has a lot of experience in building a complex GPU architecture, which are now (arguably) more complex than any other computer chip on the planet.

It depends on how scaleable the architecture is. Increased dominance in the smaller devices (tablets, smart phones, cars, televisions etc.), which far outnumber both servers and desktops, means there could be a chance of developers wanting to use ARM skill sets in server applications. Seriously, is there a need for a 64-bit smartphone?

ARM is obviously as general-purpose as x86, so it depends on the performance-per-transistor and performance-per-Watt metrics.

It depends on how scaleable the architecture is. Increased dominance in the smaller devices (tablets, smart phones, cars, televisions etc.), which far outnumber both servers and desktops, means there could be a chance of developers wanting to use ARM skill sets in server applications. Seriously, is there a need for a 64-bit smartphone?

ARM is obviously as general-purpose as x86, so it depends on the performance-per-transistor and performance-per-Watt metrics.

I dont think the architecture will scale above netbooks the desktop and notebook markets are too saturated atm